On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:13:42PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Hello, > > Sometime during updates from slink to potato the locate database is > not updated any longer. Anacron is running after a reboot, but the > updatedb does not locate recent files. Can somebody enlightenment me > how things are workingtogether: > find, locate, update, updatedb, anacron and cron. > > Svante Signell
cron runs all entries in /etc/cron.d, which includes /etc/cron.d/anacron. This contains log entries which frequently invoke anacron. anacron uses timestamp information from /var/spool/anacron/* to decide when to run the daily, weekly and monthly jobs, which are stored in /etc/cron.(daily|weekly|monthly). /etc/cron.daily/find is run each day by anacron by virtue of being in the /etc/cron.d directory. It contains the updatedb command. locate uses the information produced by updatedb for fast file searches. A find command can be used for the same task as locate, but slower. Find has a million and one options for specialised searches, though. update is a command to periodically flush filesystem buffers, so I think you might be onto a red herring here ... :-) HTH. -- Regards, Paul
